Hard drive went blank

WindHydra · March 30th, 2004, 07:58

Part of my hard drive suddenly went blank. Now when I use Disk Management it shows that I have 92GB of free space where 2 partitions had been

Anyone knows what the problem is or is there any way for me to recover my files?

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lord_muad_dib · March 30th, 2004, 10:03

it seems that you have corrupted fat areas... but i dunno how to recover files

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**Betamax** · March 30th, 2004, 10:04

Hmm disks don't suddenly "go blank" for no reason. Try running scandisk. Also a virus scan would not go amiss either...

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orysyz · March 30th, 2004, 15:06

But sometimes it will, I had faced it before and I dont have any reason how can it happened.

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WindHydra · March 30th, 2004, 17:18

My disks are in NTFS file system, and 2 disks broke at the same time, one of them lost 2 partitions, the other one has a partition corrupted.
Can't run scandisk because the partitions are gone now and it's now "free space"

Ran a virus check and came up with nothing.
This happened 4 times in 2 years only with this computer (PIII 800mHz on i815e board).

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**Kurbster** · March 30th, 2004, 18:14

I bet 20 bucks the partition table got destroyed somehow. A little searching on google brought up this handy little page:

http://staff.washington.edu/trav/lin...partition.html

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WindHydra Wind, Life, Eternity Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: El Monte Posts: 1,331	Hard drive went blank Part of my hard drive suddenly went blank. Now when I use Disk Management it shows that I have 92GB of free space where 2 partitions had been Anyone knows what the problem is or is there any way for me to recover my files? __________________ Hydrobiosis.com :bounce: We ran like the wind, under the cerulean skies...

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March 30th, 2004, 10:03	#2
lord_muad_dib The FORCE is my ally Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: italy Posts: 177	it seems that you have corrupted fat areas... but i dunno how to recover files __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4000+(939 SanDiego CORE)@2,6Ghrz MoBo: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLi RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR Dual Channel GPU: Geforce 68000 Ultra PCIEX: 16X >> Monitors: LG Flatron F700B 17''CRT <> Hyundai ImageQuest L17T SPU: ABIT internal AudioMAX 7.1 + EAX >> Audio Out: My HiFi HDDs SATA: MAXTOR 200GB x2 HDDs IDE: MAXTOR 80GB DVDRW: Pioneer 108 Connection: ADSL Router Hamlet HDSL 740 @4Mbs/256Kbs OSes: WinXP Pro@SP2 <> GNU/Linux Gentoo <> APPLE Darwin 8.4 <> DOS 6.22

March 30th, 2004, 10:04	#3
Betamax Resident Movie Critic Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 9,506	Hmm disks don't suddenly "go blank" for no reason. Try running scandisk. Also a virus scan would not go amiss either... __________________ Superior marketing of an inferior product will always win over inferior marketing of a superior product.

March 30th, 2004, 15:06	#4
orysyz Shooting star Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Malaysia Posts: 774	But sometimes it will, I had faced it before and I dont have any reason how can it happened. __________________ Acer Aspire 5500, Centrino 1.73, 768Mb Ram, 80Gb HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon X700 Its Vista's voice 'wreck'gniton: Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all

March 30th, 2004, 17:18	#5
WindHydra Wind, Life, Eternity Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: El Monte Posts: 1,331	My disks are in NTFS file system, and 2 disks broke at the same time, one of them lost 2 partitions, the other one has a partition corrupted. Can't run scandisk because the partitions are gone now and it's now "free space" Ran a virus check and came up with nothing. This happened 4 times in 2 years only with this computer (PIII 800mHz on i815e board). __________________ Hydrobiosis.com :bounce: We ran like the wind, under the cerulean skies...

March 30th, 2004, 18:14	#6
Kurbster Administrator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 9,439	I bet 20 bucks the partition table got destroyed somehow. A little searching on google brought up this handy little page: http://staff.washington.edu/trav/lin...partition.html __________________